Tennis Roundup : McEnroe and Curren Advance to Final of Scottsdale Open
Top-seeded John McEnroe scored a straight-set victory over fourth-seeded David Pate in Saturday’s semifinals of the $279,000 WCT Scottsdale Open and will play third-seeded Kevin Curren for the championship today at Scottsdale, Ariz.
McEnroe needed just 67 minutes to eliminate Pate, 6-3, 6-3, and reach the final for the third time in his last three tournaments. Curren gained the final by defeating Todd Witsken 7-5, 6-7, 6-4.
Top-seeded Brad Gilbert defeated Aaron Krickstein, 7-5, 6-2, to win the $100,000 Riklis Israel tournament before a sellout crowd of 4,000 at the Ramat Hasharon Tennis Center in Tel Aviv. The victory was worth $25,000 to Gilbert.
Seventh-seeded Guy Forget of France and Jan Gunnarsson of Sweden won their semifinal matches in the $175,000 Toulouse Open at Toulouse, France.
Forget beat Czechoslovakia’s Milan Srjeber, 6-7, 6-3, 6-2, while Gunnarsson edged Diego Perez of Uruguay, 7-6, 7-6.
At Zurich, Switzerland, top-seeded Steffi Graf defeated fellow West German Eva Pfaff, 6-0, 6-1, to advance to the final of the $150,000 women’s European Indoor tournament.
Graf needed just 36 minutes to oust Pfaff, a first-round qualifier who had been the tourney’s surprise.
Today’s final will pit Graf, who has not dropped a set in the tournament, against Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia. Sukova beat Lori McNeil, 6-3, 6-3.
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